History Main / RaisedHandOfSurvival

* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' (1989). After the Joker falls into the vat of chemicals he ends up outside the factory underwater. His hand rises out of the water, showing that he's alive. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33JK0zOtJOk#t=50s here.]]

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* The sight of an open chute is the aviation equivalent to this, as the fast and furious nature of air combat can lead many to wonder if anyone got out of a stricken aircraft. And because pilots can be hard to see, friendly pilots will look for chutes instead. If they see a chute, then the pilot at least got out. In modern air combat however, this is followed by a short fly by over the pilot once he's on the ground if possible. If he waves, he's O.K., and would very much like a ride back to base/boat.

* Guy Sajer's account of service with the elite Grossdeutchland infantry in WW2, ''Literature/TheForgottenSoldier'', relates the time when Sajer is sent into a warehouse where Soviet partisans are hiding. The subsequent fire-fight leaves him feeling he is the last German soldier left alive in there. He also realises the Russians are in the roofspace, firing down on anything moving at ground level. When a German officer calls from outside to ascertain if any Germans are still alive in there, Sajer raises his arm, very cautiously, to be told to keep his head down and not to raise it. A few minutes later he realises ''why'', as German heavy weapons are fired into the building, sweeping it from knee-height to roof-space. Several thousand rounds of machine-gun ammo later and having heard the crash of Russian bodies falling from above, he walks out, alive...

* In ''Literature/PeterPan'', Wendy lies apparently dead, having been mistaken for a bird and shot out of the sky with an arrow by one of the Lost Boys, but is revealed to be alive when she raises her arm to stop Peter from executing the boy who shot her.

* In ''Literature/PeterPan'' Wendy lies apparently dead, having been mistaken for a bird and shot out of the sky with an arrow by one of the Lost Boys, but is revealed to be alive when she raises her arm to stop Peter from executing the boy who shot her.

* PlayedStraight and {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze''. Played straight at the beginning, when we see the Shredder's hand rise from the garbage. Subverted in the climax, when his hand rises from the wreckage of the dock that fell on him... only to go limp.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' (1984). Dana Barrett is changed into a dog demon by Gozer. After Gozer is destroyed the demon's charred body is found. Her hand breaks out of the body, showing that she's still alive inside it.

* PlayedStraight and {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze]]''. Played straight at the beginning, when we see the Shredder's hand rise from the garbage. Subverted in the climax, when his hand rises from the wreckage of the dock that fell on him... only to go limp.

* The sight of an open chute is the aviation equivalent to this, as the fast and furious nature of air combat can lead many to wonder if anyone got out of a stricken aircraft. And because pilots can be hard to see, friendly pilots will look for chutes instead. If they see a chute, then the pilot at least got out. In modern air combat however, this is followed by a short fly by over the pilot once he's on the ground if possible. If he waves, he's O.K., and would very much like a ride back to base/boat.

* On ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Season 4, Episode 1 Lazarus Rising Dean digs his way out of a pine box. The shot from above ground shows his hands breaking through the ground.

Compare RiseFromYourGrave, BarrierBustingBlow, FingerTwitchingRevival. Related to EyeAwaken, PlayingPossum, NotQuiteDead, and TheEndOrIsIt?. . Contrast DeadHandShot and LastGraspAtLife, where the hand gesture indicates death instead of life.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Maid of Honor", VandalSavage emerges from the rubble of the Kaznian royal palace fist-first. In an unnerving DoubleSubversion, he is not exactly OK--the explosion has disfigured his body in a rather horrifying fashion--but his CompleteImmortality keeps him alive and conscious, regardless.

* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' (1989). After the Joker falls into the vat of chemicals he ends up outside the factory underwater. His hand rises out of the water, showing that he's alive. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33JK0zOtJOk#t=50s here]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnythingAVeggieTalesMovie'', it seems that Robert the Terrible has drowned after he went down with his sinking ship, but when George, Elliot, and Sedgewick are about to return to the future in their rowboat, Robert's mechanical hand comes out from the water and grabs hold of the side of rowboat, so he comes to the future with them.